This is liiiike, what? My sixth or seventh reboot for a personal blog in my internet lifetime? I used to be persistent with blogging, really. My blog was more-or-less a timeline of my life. Week-by-week updates, going-ons, etc. It was fun to write and people seemed interested. Not everyone had blogs at the time, either. Blogs were for the geek elite. There was also a complete lack of Facebook and Twitter. Internet communication has gotten smaller and a lot more interactive, rendering the personal blog nearly obsolete. Personal blogs aren’t totally dead, but they require a lot more thought than the 140 character updates everyone is used to spurting nowadays.
The last few years, my “blog” has been nothing more than a fun idea. Between the lack of time, a solid design that “expresses me” and falling out of practice (and into social media), I couldn’t conjure more than what I am writing right now: an apology to myself for not blogging a lot, and recap of recent events in my life.
Anyway, I am sorry for not blogging. And my life has been pretty busy.
A journal, blog or similar is somewhat therapeutic, like formulating a grocery list or planning for a trip. 90% of my writing, more or less, is for my own benefit. I just happen to share it when I do. Writing is a way for me to get my thoughts collected and organized. Likely, this will become a dump of my latest interests, whatever I am enthralled with at the time, but there will also be the occasional deep pondering or perhaps subjects I don’t really care to talk about normally.
Hope you like biking, beer and board games.